Israel sent a clear message to its neighbors with the IDF’s airstrike on a key Hezbollah terrorist in Beirut on Sunday.This came a day after clashes in Gaza, where the IDF also carried out targeted strikes after Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire.
There are rising tensions on all of Israel’s fronts. For instance, in Gaza, the IDF confirmed on Saturday that “following the violation of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF and the ISA [Shin Bet] targeted Hamas terrorists in precise strikes across the Gaza Strip.”
In one of the strikes, the terrorist Alaa’ Haddadeh, who served as the head of supply in Hamas’s production headquarters, was eliminated. He was a central source of knowledge in the organization’s supply and production systems, and, during the war, he operated to transfer weapons from Hamas’s headquarters to battalion and field commanders for use against IDF troops, the army said.
The IDF also struck Lebanon on Saturday, eliminating the terrorist Kamel Reza Karnabsh in the Mayfadoun area in southern Lebanon. The terrorist took part in Hezbollah’s reestablishment attempts in the area, according to the IDF.
The pattern is clear. Israel is carrying out increased strikes on fronts where ceasefires are in place. Israel’s leadership wants to have a policy of having ceasefires and freedom of action on these fronts.
This was also evident after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led a large group to the Syrian border last week to see the buffer zone. The goal was to send a message to Damascus. Jerusalem believes that Syria’s leader was energized by meeting US President Donald Trump earlier this week, and the goal is to send a message to him that Israel can do what it wants in Syria. In essence, this is the same message in Gaza and Lebanon. It’s also a message to Iran.
Striking Beirut shows that Israel can do what it wants. In theory, this might prod Lebanon’s leadership to disarm Hezbollah. It could also alienate them and cause them to do less. They want to secure Lebanon and not have daily Israeli strikes. Reports in Arabic on X/Twitter after the Beirut strike on Sunday claimed Israel targeted Ali Al-Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, who replaced Fuad Shukr after his assassination last year.
Israel has used precision strikes as a kind of combination with diplomacy in the past. During the “war between the wars” campaign in Syria, Israel carried out thousands of strikes on Iranian targets to prevent Iranian entrenchment there between 2012 and 2024.
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